《中国儿童》美国著名传教士何德兰的代表作之一，他以自己的亲身经历，从多个角度记录了儿童生活的方方面面，并收录了老北京的150多首民谣，重温了孩提时代的天真与烂漫，回味孩提时代的幸福和快乐。本书自出版以来便深受读者好评。

It describes Chinese children's nursery rhymes, games, toys, and tales. Readings from this texts offer a look at a Westerner's own perspective on children's culture and family life as well as the complexities of cross-cultural exchange. Headland's voice offers an example of a global encounter at a moment of high imperialism indeed, these texts were published in the immediate wake of the dramatic Boxer Uprising and siege of foreign legations that occurred in Beijing during the summer of 1900.

Issac Taylor Headland (1859-1942), a resident of Beijing and a scholar at Peking (Beijing) University, joined other contemporaries interested in both popular culture and folklore in his own study of daily life in China. He was particularly concerned with the collection and transcription of Chinese children's rhymes.